Solution Architect - PageGroup SSC

• New challenge in a International company
• SSC. English. Barcelona.

Are you looking for a place to work that inspire and challenge you? A place to unleash your potential? Then the PageGroup Barcelona Shared Service Center (SSC), with its flexible, open culture and meritocratic structure is the place for you.

https://www.pagepersonnel.es/clientprofile/pagegroup-shared-services-centre

Key Responsibilities:

• Build a strong understanding of business strategy, enterprise needs and market forces


• Comprehend, contribute to, and foster the enterprise IT strategies and architecture


• Proactively identify, raise and articulate gaps, problems and opportunities in the enterprise landscape, stating the value and risk of each


• Steer and shape the definition of requirements, processes and other business models


• Determine and document suitable solution architectures (changes to the enterprise landscape) in a variety of forms and levels of detail, along with the initiatives and approach to deliver them, in consideration of the bigger picture


• Assess value, risk and impact of tech-related ideas, proposals and opportunities, and advise leadership accordingly


• Identify, raise and manage key architecture decisions, and develop, document and present options for each, along with the key implications, in a manner understandable by key business leaders


• Steer delivery and technical teams in the implementation of solution architectures and architecture decisions


• Act as a custodian of the enterprise architecture and landscape, to ensure the broader concerns and non-functional needs of the business from the immediate through to the long term are represented at all times


• Manage relationships, provide advice (aligned to the enterprise architecture) and explain complex concepts in simple, non-technical manner to business leadership and other non-technical stakeholders


• Mentoring and guidance to business partners, product owners and key delivery personnel including project managers, business analysts, technical architects and technical leads

Authority/Decision Making:

The role has no financial authority

There are no direct reports



Qualifications:

There are no formal qualification requirements, although the following are desirable:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science


• TOGAF


• Recognised Solution Architecture qualification

• Food Voucher


• Health Insurance


• Life Insurance


• Bonus


• Hybrid Model: 2 days from home


• Office based in Plaza Europa


• International environment

Skills/Experience:Key skills required are:

• Strong relationship management and collaboration (with senior leadership, delivery and technical personnel)


• Excellent communication and presentation


• Solutions architecture (enterprise-wide, not system or technology-specific)


• Business analysis and modelling


• Software architecture and design


• Integration architecture and design


• Data architecture and modelling


• Strong analytical thinking


• Ability to create structure and clarity from ambiguity


• Ability to communicate complex topics in simple terms

Experience desirable:

• Work in an IT-related role for 10+ years


• Work in a similar role for 5+ years desirable


• Work on Sales, Marketing, Digital or CRM projects and systems for 5+ years desirable


• Work on Salesforce projects and systems desirable


• Work in various IT product or delivery roles


• Demonstrable delivery of the skills given above


• Working in a cloud, buy-over-build landscape


• Working in a multi-vendor IT sourcing environment


• Enterprises of a similar size and geographic distribution to PageGroup


• Working in a global, multi-regional environment


• Strong understanding of IT industry trends and methodologies

Mandatory Attitudes and Behaviours:

• Proactive


• Analytical and strong attention to detail


• Pragmatic - able to balance competing pressures and influences


• Effective communication style able to influence business decisions


• Able to build strong relationships with business and IT stakeholders at all levels


• Comfortable working in a global / matrix team environment